How to Cheat and Hack Flash based Games

Nearly everybody likes to have a little game every now and then, whether it’s a round of Windows Solitaire or the latest Call of Duty or Age of Empires. Another very popular area of gaming is the world of Flash based games which use the Adobe Flash Player from within your web browser to run. It’s especially popular among children because the games are often simple and quite easy to understand with about as much experience and knowledge needed as playing a game of Angry Birds.

If you get stuck in a normal PC game that you install on your computer, there’s usually walkthroughs, cheat codes, help guides and trainers available from a host of sources to help you out with unlimited money, health and so on. But Flash games seldom have built-in cheats and they’re a lot harder to find. Although most Flash games are easy to play, some of them are fiendishly difficult to complete which leads to frustration because there is so little help on the internet available.

One of the only ways to cheat in Flash based games is to hack the memory of the game much like an ordinary game trainer does. Here’s the simple explanation of how you can hack flash games with a program called Cheat Engine. You use Cheat Engine to load the browser process that is running the Flash game, search for the cheat value in memory, then modify or freeze the value. If you change the value to a higher number, you’ll get a higher value such as more money. If you freeze it, that means you won’t run out of that value.

Here’s how to do it.

Setting up Cheat Engine

1. Download and install the Cheat Engine program. Alternatively you can download the adware free portable version from the same page and extract the Rar file with your favorite archiver. Then launch Cheat Engine.

2. Open the Flash game in your web browser.

3. Click on the flashing Open Process button in Cheat Engine.

4. Click on the necessary process in the list and click Open. Depending on which browser you’re using, the process that Cheat Engine needs to monitor will differ.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer will usually create 2 processes for itself and sometimes 3, select the lowest process in the list. If you have 3 iexplore.exe processes, try the second one if the bottom one doesn’t work.

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox loads the Flash player into an external plugin container process and more recent versions of Flash also spawn two FlashPlayerPlugin_{version}.exe processes. Open the lowest FlashPlayerPlugin.exe process.

Google Chrome

Because Chrome opens so many processes for tabs and extensions it’s more tricky to identify which one to open in Cheat Engine. To find out:

1. Press Shift+Escape in Chrome to open its task manager, find the task for the Shockwave Flash plugin and note down its Process ID.

2. The ID needs to be converted into Hex so you can identify it in Cheat Engine. Either go to an online Decimal to Hex converter, type the ID and press the button to get a Hex value, or open the Windows Calculator from the Accessories menu in Start and convert to Hex from there.

3. Go back to Cheat Engine and find the Chrome process that matches the Hex value. In the example above “3852” converted to “F0C” so that process is selected.

Cheat Engine is a tool that allows you to manipulate the memory (RAM) on your system, including memory addresses that are allocated to other processes.
Because of this, Windows and other anti-malware tools will see this as “potentially harmful”.

1. Get Cheat Engine and open up your flash game in your browser. Browsers like IE, FF or Opera will be easier to hack than chrome because they run on fewer processes.
2. Click the PC icon at the top right and select a process of the browser you are playing the game in. Double-click one of these processes, if there are multiple ones.
3. Enable a speed hack, set it to 0 (freeze game) and apply.
4. If the game is now frozen, you selected the correct browser process. If not you need to choose another one and repeat until the speedhack freezes the game. (Works with 99% of all flash games.)

Hey.. Guys. It might seem a bit weird to only post a comment now. But i really want to hack 8 ball pool using cheat engine… It is working fine until the first day of august 2017.The normal memory search process does not work any more.. Is there anyway to hack it still by using cheat engine??
Hoping to hear from you guys

I’ve already cheat age of empires resources and figures with very large health, tiberian sun and many others games years ago with cheat engine. It’s 100% working but there you must search for changed value. On youtube you have many examples. Good luck!

Hi guys.
Flash and shockwave are a different animal. They run inside other processes usually, but with games, they run sandboxed in their own process. Finding the right one for the right app is a little tricky. WIth different browsers, the plugin runs a little different, but most run them outside the browser in a protected memory space “as if local host”, and this can be a security problem (hence the sandbox). However, with more browsers actually enclosing it in a separate and wrapped process with the latest flash, you can be a little safer. You still need to run your AV and have it watch the process. That said…
Some have gone to the standalone flash player for this reason. It sandboxes inside the player and leaves only access to protected, private process memory (yes in your profile memory, but usually innocuous, and only with admin rights provided). Some games need that, so allow it, then copy paste the appdata, roaming, macrovision folder whereever you want (in a non run directory like documents), and wipe all your cookie\cache afterward. This will prevent any mishaps, allowing you to scan the data for problems later. You can replace this folder back to it’s location later to keep savegame data.
Hacking can be done on two levels. SaveTrainer, and GameTrainer. SaveTrainer is a bit more like hexedits. You connect to the save files in the folders, and search for specific values, then change them.
GameTrainer is a mode in which the game is running. With different browsers, the plugin will have different names and process id’s. Check them out. They may even have similar names to the actual browser. The standalone player is particularly difficult to hack, as it seems to route memory information and move it constantly in its own process. Start with the plugin process with the lowest process id, then move on to the next one. Scan the same way each time. One of them will produce results. Also, flash 7 uses the double type mostly. Anything below uses 4byte. 8 and 9 use 4byte for most standard values, but require you to multiply all values by 8 and scan for that.

with your help i tried to hack pet rescue saga successfully.. THANK YOU FOR THAT..
And please let me know, Is that possible to hack facebook games such as dragon city and monster legends..
and some suggessions for hacking it..
Your article gives me more interest in trying those..

There is a way, but you can’t scan the numbers. You have to change to array of bytes and search for the correct array and change the array for some of the games. But for these two, hacking gold, gems, food is almost impossible. Its easy to hack like the limit of habitats or farms you have. Switch to text and search farm. Then select all the result you get and change the value to infinite, then buy a farm and you will get infinite farms.

Hello I am Eager to try your game but the biggest question arises is that whether i can hack the coins of the games uploaded in miniclip? I mainly want the games which are multiplayer like 8 ball pool multiplayer,club penguin and others(all multiplayer)…Please reply quick as it want to try it if my aim can be achieved…!

I use Beamrise browser and I wanna add more chips to the DoubleU Casino game. I hope you can help me out. Thanks in forward. Please try to help me out somehow coz the game just takes my chips/money all the time.

type about:memory in the address bar you will see pepper plugin with shockwave flash player under it next to it will be a number type the number in your calculator and press hex it will show you what file to open when you open cheat engine

The older Opera should be quite easy because it’s one executable file that needs monitoring (opera.exe).

The newer Chromium based Opera is more difficult because it doesn’t have an internal task manager like Google Chrome so you can’t easily identify which process is the correct one. The only way really is to have 1 tab open and try to find the last opened opera.exe in Windows Task Manager when you open the page with the flash game in it.

As I put in the note at the bottom, Facebook games are highly unlikely to work as the data is stored on their servers, and as you have to buy extra coins, the value will most likely be encrypted as well….

I’ve been using cheat engine for about 2 years now but I have NEVER been able to hack flash games like this. I managed to hack only %10 of the whole flash games i tried to hack! But this is sick! Great job man, I don’t know how the hell u found out about it!

Dude you are great. I’ve been trying 2 hack these 2 games for ages but could never find out how to do it with cheatengine. I tried your method last night and I managed 2 hack them. Tried a few other games and it worked too. Thank you for showing me this :)